The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), has revealed that the power deal with South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, has finally been consummated. Zimbabwe is currently receiving 400MW from Eskom.
In a statement, ZESA spokesperson, Fullard Gwasira said that load shedding has been downgraded to Stage 1, which essentially reduces power cuts from roughly 18 hours to 8 hours a day. He said:
The electricity supply situation has improved significantly following interventions by both the Government and the line ministry to access power from the region.
I can confirm that we started receiving power from Eskom on Thursday after payment modalities were worked out by both utilities.
This power supply situation gives predictability to load-shedding and largely puts all customers in Stage 1 load-shedding. So there is significant relief but does not eliminate load- shedding.
Gwasira, however, revealed that the country is generating less power than the installed capacity of its power plants.
Kariba Hydro is generating a paltry 277MW down from 1050MW while Hwange experiences intermittent breakdowns as a result of ageing equipment. Added Gwasira:
Our plants are still old and still have a high frequency of break down. Kariba has lost 800MW and Eskom is providing 400MW. There is still a gap of about 400MW which will be managed by load shedding.
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Are we still URGING-ministers to pay the 1.2 US $ that has been outstanding for years ?
That is 1.2 BILLION ……😖
kumaindustries please musadzimemagetsi
Better but still there is a way to go
Whoever the lying retard from Zesa is, he doesn’t live in my suburb. We have never known stage 1 load shedding. It was morning or afternoon off for minimum nine hours, or months of 18 hours off. Today we went out at 5 am and are still off at 3 pm. Zesa is the most useless, corrupt utility going, having responded to a crisis they have created after 40 years of theft, high living and inactivity.
these zesa retards and their zanu handlers are a bunch of ignorant, incompetent fucken useless assholes !
We are still experiencing the same load shedding here in st mary’s chitungwiza.17 hrs of load shedding.media should not lie that the power crisis has been redolved.